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GCSE Biology · key term
A treatment in which eggs are fertilised with sperm outside the body and an embryo is then placed in the uterus.
Used by OCR
Paper 1 (Foundation), Paper 2 (Foundation), Paper 3 (Higher), Paper 4 (Higher)
Revise: Infertility TreatmentsIf fertilisation then takes place inside the body, pregnancy may follow without IVF. Another treatment, clomifene, encourages the body to release more of its own FSH and LH rather than supplying those hormones directly.
Distinguish hormone treatment that may allow fertilisation inside the body from IVF, in which eggs are fertilised outside the body.
IVF can improve the chance of pregnancy, but an embryo placed in the uterus does not always implant.
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